Palestinians

Eli E. Hertz

All [that Palestinians] can agree on as a community is what they want to destroy,
not what they want to build.
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New York Times
Columnist Thomas Friedman

The Palestinians claim that they are an ancient and indigenous people fails to
stand up to historic scrutiny. Most Palestinian Arabs were newcomers to British
Mandate Palestine. Until the 1967 Six-Day War made it expedient for Arabs to
create a Palestinian peoplehood, local Arabs simply considered themselves part of
the great Arab nation or southern Syrians.
There is no age-old Palestinian people. Most so-called Palestinians are relative
newcomers to The Land of Israel.
Palestinian Arabs cast themselves as a native people in Palestine like the
Aborigines in Australia or Native Americans in America. They portray the Jews as
European imperialists and colonizers. This is simply untrue.
Until the Jews began returning to the Land of Israel in increasing numbers from
the late 19th century to the turn of the 20th, the area called Palestine was a God-
forsaken backwash that belonged to the Ottoman Empire, based in Turkey.
The lands fragile ecology had been laid waste in the wake of the Arabs 7th-
century conquest. In 1799, the population was at it lowest and estimated to be no
more than 250,000 to 300,000 inhabitants in all the land.
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At the turn of the 20th century, the Arab population west of the Jordan River
(today, Israel and the West Bank) was about half a million inhabitants and east of
the Jordan River perhaps 200,000.
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The collapse of the agricultural system with the influx of nomadic tribes after the
Arab conquest that created malarial swamps and denuded the ancient terrace
system eroding the soil, was coupled by a tyrannous regime, a crippling tax
system and absentee landowners that further decimated the population. Much of
the indigenous population had long since migrated or disappeared. Very few Jews
or Arabs lived in the region before the arrival of the first Zionists in the 1880s and
most of those that did lived in abject poverty.
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Most Arabs living west of the Jordan River in Israel, the West Bank (Judea and
Samaria) and Gaza are newcomers who came from surrounding Arab lands after
the turn of the 20th century because they were attracted to the relative economic
prosperity brought about by the Zionist Movement and the British in the 1920s
and 1930s.
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This is substantiated by eyewitness reports of a deserted country including
18th-century reports from the British archaeologist Thomas Shaw, French author
and historian Count Constantine Volney (Travels through Syria and Egypt,
1798), the mid-19th-century writings of Alphonse de Lamartine (Recollections of
the East, 1835), Mark Twain (Innocents Abroad, 1867), and reports from the
British Consul in Jerusalem (1857) that were sent back to London.
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The Ottoman Turks census (1882) recorded only 141,000 Muslims in the Land of
Israel. The real number is probably closer to 350,000 to 425,000, since many hid
to avoid taxes. The British census in 1922 reported 650,000 Muslims.
Aerial photographs taken by German aviators during World War I show an
underdeveloped country composed mainly of primitive hamlets.
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Ashdod, for
instance, was a cluster of mud dwellings, Haifa a fishing village. In 1934 alone,
30,000 Syrian Arabs from the Hauran moved across the northern frontier into
Mandate Palestine, attracted by work in and around the newly built British port
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and the construction of other infrastructure projects. They even dubbed Haifa
Um el-Amal (the city of work).
The fallacy of Arab claims that most Palestinians were indigenous to Palestine
not newcomers is also bolstered by a 1909 vintage photograph of Nablus, today
an Arab city on the West Bank with over 121,000 residents. Based on the number
of buildings in the photo taken from the base of Mount Gerizim, the population in
1909 Muslim Arabs and Jewish Samaritans could not have been greater than
2,000 residents.
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Family names of many Palestinians attest to their non-Palestinian origins. Just as
Jews bear names like Berliner, Warsaw and Toledano, modern phone books in
the Territories are filled with families named Elmisri (Egyptian), Chalabi
(Syrian), Mugrabi (North Africa).
Palestinian Nationality is an Entity Defined by its
Opposition to Zionism, and not its National Aspirations
What unites Palestinians has been their opposition to Jewish nationalism and the
desire to stamp it out, not aspirations for their own state. Local patriotic feelings
are generated only when a non Islamic entity takes charge such as Israel did
after the 1967 Six-Day War. It dissipates under Arab rule, no matter how distant
or despotic.
A Palestinian identity did not exist until an opposing force created it primarily
anti-Zionism. Opposition to a non-Muslim nationalism on what local Arabs, and
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the entire Arab world, view as their own turf, was the only expression of
Palestinian peoplehood.
The Grand Mufti Hajj Amin al-Husseini, a charismatic religious leader and
radical anti-Zionist was the moving force behind opposition to Jewish
immigration in the 1920s and 1930s. The two-pronged approach of the
Diplomacy of Rejection (of Zionism) and the violence the Mufti incited
occurred at the same time Lebanon, Syria, Transjordan and Iraq became
countries in the post-Ottoman reshuffling of territories established by the British
and the French under the League of Nations mandate system.
The tiny educated class among the Arabs of Palestine was more politically aware
than the rest of Arab society, with the inklings of a separate national identity.
However, for decades, the primary frame of reference for most local Arabs was
the clan or tribe, religion and sect, and village of origin. If Arabs in Palestine
defined themselves politically, it was as southern Syrians.
Under Ottoman rule, Syria referred to a region much larger than the Syrian Arab
Republic of today, with borders established by France and England in 1920.
In his book Greater Syria: The History of an Ambition, Daniel Pipes explains:
Syria was a region that stretched from the borders of Anatolia to those of Egypt,
from the edge of Iraq to the Mediterranean Sea. In terms of todays states, the
Syria of old comprised Syria, Lebanon, Israel, and Jordan, plus the Gaza Strip
and Alexandria.
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Syrian maps in the 21st century still co-opt most of Greater Syria, including
Israel.
The Grand Mufti Al-Husseinis aspirations slowly shifted from pan-Arabism the
dream of uniting all Arabs into one polity, whereby Arabs in Palestine would
unite with their brethren in Syria to winning a separate Palestinian entity, with
himself at the helm. Al-Husseini was the moving force behind the 1929 riots
against the Jews and the 1936-1939 Arab Revolt against two non-Muslim entities
in Palestine the British and the Jews. He gathered a large following by playing
on fears that the Jews had come to dispossess, or at least dominate the Arabs.
Much like Yasser Arafat, the Grand Muftis ingrained all-or-nothing extremism,
fanaticism and even an inability to cooperate with his own compatriots made him
totally ineffective. He led the Palestinian Arabs nowhere.
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The Palestinian cause became a key rallying point for Arab nationalism
throughout the Middle East, according to Oxford historian Avi Shlaim. The
countries the British and French created in 1918-1922 were based largely on
meridians on the map, as is evident in the borders that delineate the Arab states
today. Because these states lack ethnic logic or a sense of community, their
opposition to the national aspirations of the Jews has become the fuel that fires
Arab nationalism as the glue of national identity.
From the 1920s, rejection of Jewish nationalism, attempts to prevent the
establishment of a Jewish homeland by violence, and rejection of any form of
Jewish political power, including any plans to share stewardship with Arabs,
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crystallized into the expression of Palestinianism. No other positive definition of
an Arab-Palestinian people has surfaced. This point is admirably illustrated in the
following historic incident:
In 1926, Lord Plumer was appointed as the second High Commissioner of
Palestine. The Arabs within the Mandate were infuriated when Plumer stood up
for the Zionists national anthem Hatikva during ceremonies held in his honor
when Plumer first visited Tel Aviv. When a delegation of Palestinian Arabs
protested Plumers Zionist bias, the High Commissioner asked the Arabs if he
remained seated when their national anthem was played, wouldnt you regard
my behavior as most unmannerly? Met by silence, Plumer asked: By the way,
have you got a national anthem? When the delegation replied with chagrin that
they did not, he snapped back, I think you had better get one as soon as
possible.
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But it took the Palestinians more than 60 years to heed Plumers advice, adopting
Anthem of the Intifada two decades after Israel took over the West Bank and
Gaza in 1967 at the beginning of the 1987 Intifada.
Under the Mandate, local Arabs also refused to establish an Arab Agency to
develop the Arab sector, parallel to the Jewish Agency that directed development
of the Jewish sector.
In fact, the so-called patriotism of indigenous Muslims has flourished only when
non-Muslim entities (the Crusaders, the British, the Jews) have taken charge of
the Holy Land. When political control returns to Muslim hands, the ardent
patriotism of the Arabs of Palestine magically wanes, no matter how distant or
how despotic the government. One Turkish pasha who ruled Acco (Acre) between
1775 and 1804 was labeled Al Jazzar, The Butcher, by locals.
Why hasnt Arab representative government ever been established in Palestine,
either in 1948 or during the next 19 years of Arab rule? Because other Arabs co-
opted the Palestinian cause as a rallying point that would advance the concept
that the territory was up for grabs. The Arab invasion of Palestine was not a
means for achieving an independent Palestine, but rather the result of a lack of
consensus on the part of the Arab states regarding such independence, summed
up one historian.
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Adherents to a separate Palestinian identity were a mute
minority on the West Bank and Gaza during the 19 years of Jordanian and
Egyptian rule until Israel took control from the Jordanians and the Egyptians
in 1967. Suddenly a separate Palestinian peoplehood appeared and claimed it
deserved nationhood and 21 other Arab states went along with it.
Palestinianism in and of itself lacks any substance of its own. Arab society on the
West Bank and Gaza suffers from deep social cleavages created by a host of
rivalries based on divergent geographic, historical, sociological and familial
allegiances. What glues Palestinians together is a carefully nurtured hatred of
Israel and the rejection of Jewish nationhood.
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Palestine is a Geographical Area, Not a Nationality
The Arabs invented a special national entity in the 1960s called the Palestinians,
specifically for political gain. They brand Israelis as invaders and claim the
geographic area called Palestine belongs exclusively to the Arabs.
The word Palestine is not even Arabic. It is a word coined by the Romans around
135 CE from the name of a seagoing Aegean people who settled on the coast of
Canaan in antiquity the Philistines. The name was chosen to replace Judea, as a
sign that Jewish sovereignty had been eradicated following the Jewish Revolts
against Rome.
In the course of time, the Latin name Philistia was further bastardized into
Palistina or Palestine.
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During the next 2,000 years, Palestine was never an
independent state belonging to any people, nor did a Palestinian people, distinct
from other Arabs, appear during 1,300 years of Muslim hegemony in Palestine
under Arab and Ottoman rule.
Palestine was and is solely a geographic name. Therefore, it is not surprising that
in modern times the name Palestine or Palestinian was applied as an adjective
to all inhabitants of the area between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan
River Palestine Jews and Palestine Arabs alike. In fact, until the 1960s, most
Arabs in Palestine preferred to identify themselves merely as part of the great
Arab nation or citizens of southern Syria.
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The term Palestinian as a noun was usurped and co-opted by the Arabs in the
1960s as a tactic initiated by Yasser Arafat to brand Jews as intruders on
someone elses turf. He presented Arab residents of Israel and the Territories as
indigenous inhabitants since time immemorial. This fabrication of peoplehood
allowed Palestinian Arabs to gain parity with the Jewish people as a nation
deserving of an independent state.
In a March 1977 interview in the Dutch newspaper Trouw, Zahir Muhsein, a
member of the PLO executive committee, admitted:
Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a
Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the
existence of a distinct Palestinian people to oppose Zionism.
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Historically, Before the Arabs Fabricated the Palestinian
People as an Exclusively Arab Phenomenon, No Such Group
Existed
Countless official British Mandate-vintage documents speak of the Jews and the
Arabs of Palestine not Jews and Palestinians.
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Ironically, before local Jews began calling themselves Israelis in 1948 (the name
Israel was chosen for the newly-established Jewish state), the term Palestine
applied almost exclusively to Jews and the institutions founded by new Jewish
immigrants in the first half of the 20th century, before independence.
Some examples include:
The Jerusalem Post, founded in 1932, was called the Palestine Post until 1948.
Bank Leumi LIsrael was called the Anglo-Palestine Bank, a Jewish Company.
The Jewish Agency an arm of the Zionist movement engaged in Jewish
settlement since 1929 was called the Jewish Agency for Palestine.
The house organ of American Zionism in the 1930s was called New Palestine.
Todays Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, founded in 1936 by German Jewish
refugees who fled Nazi Germany, was called the Palestine Symphony Orchestra,
composed of some 70 Palestinian Jews.
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The United Jewish Appeal (UJA) was established in 1939 as a merger of the
United Palestine Appeal and the fundraising arm of the Joint Distribution
Committee.
Encouraged by their success at historical revisionism and brainwashing the world
with the Big Lie of a Palestinian people, Palestinian Arabs have more recently
begun to claim they are the descendants of the Philistines and even the Stone Age
Canaanites.
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Based on that myth, they can claim to have been victimized twice
by the Jews: in the conquest of Canaan by the Israelites and by the Israelis in
modern times a total fabrication.
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Archeologists explain that the Philistines
were a Mediterranean people who settled along the coast of Canaan in 1100 BCE.
They have no connection to the Arab nation, a desert people who emerged from
the Arabian Peninsula.
As if that myth were not enough, Arafat claimed Palestinian Arabs are
descendants of the Jebusites displaced when King David conquered Jerusalem.
Arafat also argued that Abraham was an Iraqi. One Christmas Eve, Arafat
declared that Jesus was a Palestinian, a preposterous claim that echoes the
words of Hanan Ashrawi, a Christian Arab, who in an interview during the 1991
Madrid Conference said: Jesus Christ was born in my country, in my land,
claiming she was the descendant of the first Christians disciples who spread
the gospel around Bethlehem some 600 years before the Arab conquest. If her
claim were true, it would be tantamount to confessing that she is a Jew!
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Contradictions abound, Palestinian leaders claim to be descended from the
Canaanites, the Philistines, the Jebusites and the first Christians. They also co-
opt Jesus and ignore his Jewishness, at the same time claiming the Jews never
were a people and never built the Holy Temples in Jerusalem.
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There has Never Been a Sovereign Arab State in Palestine
The artificiality of a Palestinian identity is reflected in the attitudes and actions of
neighboring Arab nations who never established a Palestinian state. It also is
expressed in the utterances and loyalties of so-called Palestinians.
Only twice in Jerusalems history has it served as a national capital. The first time
was as the capital of the two Jewish Commonwealths during the First and Second
Temple periods, as described in the Bible, reinforced by archaeological evidence
and numerous ancient documents.
The second time is in modern times as the capital of the State of Israel. It has
never served as an Arab capital for the simple reason that there has never been a
Palestinian Arab state.
The rhetoric by Arab leaders on behalf of the Palestinians rings hollow, for the
Arabs in neighboring lands, who control 99.9 percent of the Middle East land,
have never recognized a Palestinian entity. They have always considered
Palestine and its inhabitants part of the great Arab nation, historically and
politically as an integral part of Greater Syria Suriyya al-Kubra a designation
that covered both sides of the Jordan River.
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In the 1950s, Jordan simply
annexed the West Bank, since its population was viewed as brethren of the
Jordanians. Jordans official narrative of Jordanian state-building attests to
this fact:
Jordanian identity underlies the significant and fundamental common
denominator that makes it inclusive of Palestinian identity, particularly in view of
the shared historic social and political development of the people on both sides of
the Jordan. ... The Jordan government, in view of the historical and political
relationship with the West Bank granted all Palestinian refugees on its territory
full citizenship rights while protecting and upholding their political rights as
Palestinians (Right of Return or compensation).
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The Arabs never established a Palestinian state when the UN offered a partition
plan in 1947 to establish an Arab and a Jewish state (not a Palestinian state, it
should be noted). Nor did the Arabs recognize or establish a Palestinian state
during the two decades prior to the Six-Day War when the West Bank was under
Jordanian control and the Gaza Strip was under Egyptian control; nor did the
Palestinians clamor for autonomy or independence during those years under
Jordanian and Egyptian rule.
Well before the 1967 decision to create a new Arab people called Palestinians,
when the word Palestinian was associated with Jewish endeavors, Auni Bey
Abdul-Hadi, a local Arab leader, testified in 1937 before a British investigative
body the Peel Commission saying: There is no such country [as Palestine]!
Palestine is a term the Zionists invented! There is no Palestine in the Bible. Our
country was for centuries, part of Syria.
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In a 1946 appearance before the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry, also
acting as an investigative body, the Arab historian Philip Hitti stated:
There is no such thing as Palestine in [Arab] history, absolutely not. According
to investigative journalist Joan Peters, who spent seven years researching the
origins of the Arab-Jewish conflict over Palestine (From Time Immemorial,
2001) the one identity that was never considered by local inhabitants prior to the
1967 war was Arab Palestinian.
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Palestinian Cultural Contribution
Culturally, Palestinians cannot distinguish their endeavors from other Arabs. The
only innovations Palestinians can take credit for are using skyjackings which
they initiated in 1968
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as a political instrument, and suicide bombers refined
since the advent of the Oslo Accords in 1993 as a political weapon that now
cynically is turning Arabs own youth into suicide bombers that target other
civilians.
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There is absolutely no precedent elsewhere in the world for the
Palestinian 6th grade language primer that contains a poem exalting: I will take
my soul into my hands and hurl it into the abyss of death.
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In the wake of the
Palestinians newest guerrilla warfare against Israel, the al Aqsa Intifada
launched by Arafat in September 2000, people are closely examining Palestinian
claims to nationhood.
Barry Chamish, Dov B. Fischer, and countless others seek to ascertain the
truth.
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If there is an ancient Palestinian history, why cant they find any world-
renowned Palestinian artists or scientists, or at least one Palestinian literary
masterpiece or breakthrough invention anything that distinguishes
Palestinians as a people?
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Jordan a State with a Palestinian Arab Majority
There is already a Palestinian state and a Palestinian people in everything but
name: over 70 percent of all Jordanians are Palestinian Arabs. The British were
assigned a Mandate over Palestine in 1920 in order to realize the 1917 Balfour
Declaration that called for establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine a
geographical area that included western Palestine (todays Israel and the West
Bank) and Eastern Palestine (todays Jordan). In 1923 Eastern Palestine,
representing 77 percent of the Mandate territory, was excised to placate the
Arabs, who opposed the idea of Jews returning to their ancient Jewish homeland.
That 76 percent became a separate mandate, and in 1946 Eastern Palestine
became the Hashemite Kingdom of Transjordan (later renamed Jordan after
the Jordanians occupied the West Bank) a country which today is in everything
but name, a Palestinian state carved out of Mandate Palestine.
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A full 70 percent
of all Jordanians are Palestinian Arabs, and Palestinians occupy key positions in
Jordans government and its economy. Even the Queen King Abdullah IIs
wife, Rania, is Palestinian. The remaining 30 percent of Jordans population is
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Bedouin, originating from the Arabian Peninsula, and including the Jordanian
royal family, who hail from Mecca.
Arabs are not satisfied with one Palestinian political entity where they are the
uncontested majority and have the political machinery and the territory for self-
determination Jordan. Instead, they want an additional state because twenty-
one Arab states are not enough (and one Jewish state is one too many).
IN A NUTSHELL
So-called Palestinians are newcomers to Palestine. Most are generic Arabs who
migrated to British Mandate Palestine from surrounding Arab countries to take
advantage of the relative prosperity brought about by the Zionist Movement
and the British Mandate.
Palestine is a geographical area, not a nation. Before the establishment of Israel,
members of two national entities Palestinian Jews and Palestinian Arabs
inhabited Mandate Palestine.
A Palestinian people was artificially created in the 1960s by the PLO after the
Six-Day War to rob Jews of their homeland and historical identity, and to paint
them as victimizers and trespassers. The objective is to lay the groundwork for
creating another Arab state at the expense of the Jews whom Arabs consider
an alien and illegitimate political entity in the Middle East.
Over seventy percent of all Jordanians define themselves as Palestinians. That
there exists a separate Palestinian people from the Jordanian population is a
fabrication designed to force the creation of a second Palestinian state.















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1
Thomas Friedman, Suicide bombers threaten us all, The New York Times, April 1, 2002.
2
Efraim Orni and Elisha Efrat, Geography of Israel Jerusalem, Israel Universities Press 1966 edition, p.
168.
3
Yitzhak Ravid, Palestinian Refugees, The Begin-Sadat (BESA) Center for Strategic Studies, January 2001.
See: (in Hebrew)
www.biu.ac.il/soc/besa/publications/mideast45.pdf. (10891)
4
For British sources substantiating the influx of Arabs, including the British governor of Sinai in 1922, the
Hope-Simpson Report in 1930, and Winston Churchill in 1939, see: Yehezkel Bin-Nun, The Myth of the
Palestinian People in Hebrew at:
www.israelinsider.com/views/articles/views_0240.htm. (11495)
5
For a host of quotes from primary sources, see: Was Palestine full of Arabs before the mass return of
Jews? under subject heading Palestine in the Peace Encyclopedia
www.yahoodi.com/peace/palestine.html. (11496)
6
B. Z. Kedar, Looking Twice at the Land of Israel: Aerial Photographs of 1917-18 and 1987-91, Ben-Zvi
Institute with the Israeli M.O.D Publishing House. 239 pp.
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Yehezkel Bin-Nun, The Myth of the Palestinian People, January 7, 2002, at:
www.israelinsider.com/views/articles/views_0240.htm. (11495)
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See also the 1934 photo of a Passover sacrifice by Jewish Samaritans at:
http://buffalo-israel-link.org/page9.html. (11497)
9
See introductory chapter of Daniel Pipes, Greater Syria: The History of an Ambition, at:
www.danielpipes.org/books/greaterchap.php. (11498)
10
For this assessment of Al-Husseini, see: Zvi Elpeleg, Why Was Independent Palestine Never Created in
1948? Jerusalem Quarterly (Spring 1989) at:
www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Peace%20Process/Guide%20to%20the%20Peace%20Process/Why%20Was%20-
Independent%20Palestine-%20Never%20Created%20in%201. (11499)
11
Christopher Sykes, Cross Roads to Israel Palestine from Balfour to Bevin London, Collins, 1965, pp.
92-93.
12
Zvi Elpeleg, Why Was Independent Palestine Never Created in 1948? at:
www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Peace%20Process/Guide%20to%20the%20Peace%20Process/Why%20Was%20-
Independent%20Palestine-%20Never%20Created%20in%201. (11499) This included even squashing local
initiatives to establish local national committees, suppressing attempts to establish an all- Palestine shadow
government in exile in Gaza and preventing Al-Husseini from re-entering Palestine.
13
For a Christian perspective of the Palestinian people myth, see: The Jewish Roots of Christianity - The
Myth of Palestine at: www.rbooker.com/html/the_myth_of_palestine.html. (11500)
14
See the 1st Congress of Muslim-Christian Associations to the Paris Peace Conference, Jerusalem
February 1919. For an in-depth article on Palestinians Syrian identity, see: Daniel Pipes, Palestine for the
Syrians, Commentary (December 1986) at: www.danielpipes.org/pf.php?id=174. (11501)
15
See: Joseph Farah, Palestinian People Do Not Exist, WorldNet Daily, July 11, 2002 at:
www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=28222 (11502)
16
The texts of documents can be found in the Yale online law library. British ones such as the White Paper of
1939 speak of Jews and Arabs or the Arabs of Palestine, and even the United Nations 1947 Partition Plan
speaks of Arab and Jewish states. There were no Palestinians. at:
www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/mideast/mideast.htm. (11578)
17
From the report by The High Commissioner on The Administration of Palestine 1920-1925 to the Right
Honorable L. S. Amery, M.P., Secretary of State for the Colonies. Government Offices, Jerusalem, 22nd
April, 1925.
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Dear pupil, do you know who the Palestinians are? The Palestinian people are descended from the
Canaanites. See the survey and quotes from Palestinian textbooks at: www.edume.org/reports/1/4.htm.
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19
For information on the coining of the name Palestine and Philistine origins, see: Rockwell Lazareth, Who
are the Palestinians? What and Where is Palestine? at: www.newswithviews.com/israel/israel14.htm.
(11504)
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20
The War on History, Christian Friends of Israel UK, at:
www.cfi.org.uk/downloads/War%20on%20History.pdf. (11588)
21
See: Daniel Pipes, Greater Syria: History of an Ambition (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990) at:
www.danielpipes.org/books/greaterchap.php. (11498)
22
Political History & System of Government Jordans State building and the Palestinian Problem,
Embassy of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, at:
www.jordanembassyus.org/new/aboutjordan/ph3.shtml. (11589)
23
For this and a host of other quotes from Arab spokespersons on the Syrian identity of local Arabs, see:
www.yahoodi.com/peace/palestinians.html. (11538)
24
See: Jim Gerrish, The Lie of the Land or How to Steal a Heritage, Church & Israel Forum at:
www.churchisraelforum.com/the_lie_of_the_land.htm (11570) quoting Eliyahu Tal, Whose Jerusalem?
Jerusalem, International Forum for a United Jerusalem, 1994. p. 93, and Joan Peters From Time
Immemorial, 1984, pp. 139-140 respectively. For excerpts on some key issues, see:
www.markehrlich.com/authors/JPfti18Xsomemyths.html. (11591)
25
Previous skyjacking were the work of greedy individuals who demanded ransom money; they were not
doing it for political reasons.
26
For one description of the culture of glorying death that drives immature adolescents to blow themselves
to smithereens fueled by the promise of seventy virgins when they get to Heaven, see: Michael B. Oren,
Palestinians Whoop It Up: How can there be peace with a people that celebrates mass murder?
27
See the report on education towards hatred, at:
www.kokhavivpublications.com/2002/israel/05/0205080939.html. (10592)
28
Barry Chamish, Why the Palestinians Have No Rights, news letter, November 13, 2000; Dov B. Fischer,
Land Without a Name, NRO, May 23, 2002. For an abridged history written in a light pithy style
reminiscent of the Condensed Shakespeare Company, see: Sylvia Foa, Palestine 101 Short Take on a Long
History, Village Voice, July 31- August 6, 2002 at: www.villagevoice.com/issues/0231/foa.php. (11592)
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For one description of the culture of glorifying death, that drives immature adolescents to blow
themselves to smithereens fueled by the promise of seventy virgins when they get to Paradise, see: Michael
B. Oren, Palestinians Whoop It Up: How can there be peace with a people that celebrates mass murder?
The Wall Street Journal Opinion Journal at: www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110002113. (11593)
Quote from 6th-grade language primer with a poem exalting: I will take my soul into my hands and hurl it
into the abyss of death" in report on education toward hatred at:
http://fp.thebeers.f9.co.uk/indoctrination.htm. (11594)
30
For insights into Jordans Palestinians and their identity, see: Joseph Nevo, The Jordanian, Palestinian
and the Jordanian-Palestinian Identities, Fourth Nordic Conference on Middle Eastern Studies: The Middle
East in Globalizing World, Oslo, 13-16 August 1998, at: www.hf.uib.no/smi/pao/nevo.html. (11003)
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